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Comment Re:It's great that there's money for this stuff... (Score 2, Insightful) 238

by LotsOfPhil (#26161625) Attached to: NVIDIA GTX 295 Brings the Pain and Performance

Does helping folding@home make that portion of your power bill tax deductible? Otherwise.. who cares? Donate to a non-profit science foundation.

You are also kind of donating the hardware, which is a much bigger cost than the power. $10 worth of electricity will do more of these calcs than a $10 donation would enable.
Graphics

Submission + - Digital camera used to combat memory loss (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by LotsOfPhil
LotsOfPhil writes: The BBC has an article about a wearable digital camera called SenseCam that is being used to help people with memory loss. The camera takes a photo every 30 seconds and the patients review the photos in order to reinforce their memories.
The camera has a resolution of 640x480 and stores 30,000 pictures on a 1 Gb SD card. Apparently you wear it on a lanyard around your neck.
Google

Submission + - Google's Evil NDA

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An anonymous reader writes: Google claims that it's motto is "Do No Evil" — but they sure have an evil NDA! In order to be considered for employment there, they require you to sign an agreement which forbids you to "mention or imply the name of Google" in public ever again. Further, you can't tell anyone you interviewed there, or what they offered you, and you possibly sign away your rights to reverse engineer any of Google's code ever. And this NDA never expires. Luckily, someone has posted the contents of the NDA before he signed it and had to say silent forever.
Republicans

Submission + - Lost White House E-mails

Submitted by walrus2517
walrus2517 writes: I'm sure everyone has seen the headlines the past few days about the White House "accidentally" deleting quite a few e-mails (rumored at nearly 5 million), many regarding the 8 attorneys fired by AG Gonzalez. More details seem to be uncovered everyday, including the excuse that they "lost" their e-mails when upgrading from Outlook 2002 to 2003. These "accidental" deletions and the incredible amount of time the White House is taking to recover them has led many to speculate, including Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who went so far as to say "I've got a teenage kid in my neighborhood that can go get 'em for them". I'm not an IT guy, so I was wondering if the /. community could help me understand how difficult it really is to uncover deleted e-mails? It seems as though government agencies usually have no problem getting deleted material off of people's computer when they want, so what is taking so long?
Businesses

Submission + - If you could do it all over, would you choose IT?

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An anonymous reader writes: Given some of the complaints against IT and software as careers (long hours, offshoring, visa workers, ageism, boring projects, etc...), what would you do differently if you could do it all over again? Knowing what you know now, would you choose the same college major and the same career?
NASA

Submission + - Cassini Spacecraft Images Seas on Titan

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. One such feature is larger than any of the Great Lakes of North America and is about the same size as several seas on Earth.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Dept. of Energy wants zero dollars for geothermal

Submitted by
LotsOfPhil
LotsOfPhil writes: "The Department of Energy is requesting $0 for research into geothermal energy. From 2001-2006, the average funding was $26 million. This year it is $5 million.

The Bush administration wants to eliminate federal support for geothermal power just as many U.S. states are looking to cut greenhouse gas emissions and raise renewable power output.
The move has angered scientists who say there is enough hot water underground to meet all U.S. electricity needs without greenhouse gas emissions.
"
Music

Submission + - Someone In Congress Actually Understands Mixtapes!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Most of us (for pretty good reasons!) have come to assume that our Congressional representatives are pretty far out of touch when it comes to things like technology and culture, but it's nice to see that at least one Congressman seems to understand that mixtapes and mashups aren't such a bad thing. Techdirt has the transcript of Rep. Mike Doyle's speech, which talks about the benefits of mixtapes, while wondering about why DJ Drama was arrested: "I hope that everyone involved will take a step back and ask themselves if mash-ups and mix-tapes are really different or if it's the same as Paul McCartney admitting that he nicked the Chuck Berry bass-riff and used it on the Beatle's hit 'I Saw Her Standing There.' Maybe it is. And, maybe Drama violated some clear bright lines. Or, maybe mixtapes are a powerful tool. And, maybe mash-ups are transformative new art that expands the consumers experience and doesn't compete with what an artist has made available on iTunes or at the CD store. And, I don't think Sir Paul asked for permission to borrow that bass line, but every time I listen to that song, I'm a little better off for him having done so...."
Math

Submission + - 1.7 Billion Digits of Pi on One CD ISO

Submitted by H0ek
H0ek writes: With March 14th coming up, and already one article about Pi day up, I figure it's time to expose the CD ISO of 1.7 billion digits of pi. This CD has a search tool (and source code) on it to allow you to find groups of digits, and a textfile that describes how to use the tools and links to the source of this material. This was mentioned a few years ago but it's time for the ISO to make rounds again. Want to prove your memorization skills? Here's your chance!
Networking

Submission + - Everything you need to know about IPv6

Submitted by
Butterspoon
Butterspoon writes: "Ars Technica is running an excellent article entitled "Everything you need to know about IPv6", which should be regarded as essential reading for anyone who is overly comfortable with their IPv4 addresses. From the artice:

As of January 1, 2007, 2.4 billion of those [IPv4 addresses] were in (some kind of) use. 1.3 billion were still available and about 170 million new addresses are given out each year. So at this rate, 7.5 years from now, we'll be clean out of IP addresses; faster if the number of addresses used per year goes up.
Are you ready for IPv6?"

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